Direction: Pawel Pawlikowski

The best movies, series, and documentaries directed by Pawel Pawlikowski. Explore exceptional titles that showcase a unique filmmaking vision.


Cold War

2018 · Movie · 88 min. · Poland

Direction Pawel Pawlikowski

Cast Joanna Kulig · Tomasz Kot · Agata Kulesza · Borys Szyc

Plot “Cold War” is a passionate love story between two people of different backgrounds and temperaments, who are fatally mismatched and yet fatefully condemned to each other. Set against the background...

7.1

14K votes

7.1

14K votes

Serbian Epics (TV)

1992 · Documentary · 50 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Pawel Pawlikowski

Plot In this documentary, set in Bosnia during the war, Pawlikowski steers clear of the usual cliches of war reporting. He takes on a more anthropological perspective relying not on commentary...

7.0

30 votes

7.0

30 votes

Ida

2013 · Movie · 80 min. · Poland

Direction Pawel Pawlikowski

Cast Agata Kulesza · Agata Trzebuchowska · Joanna Kulig · Dawid Ogrodnik

Plot In the 1960s Communist Polish, Anna, a young novice nun, is told by her prioress that before she takes her vows she must visit her only surviving relative. Anna travels...

6.9

16K votes

6.9

16K votes

Last Resort

2000 · Movie · 73 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Pawel Pawlikowski

Cast Dina Korzun · Paddy Considine · Artiom Strelnikov · Perry Benson

Plot Russian emigre Tanya and her 10-year-old son Artiom arrive in England, where she plans to marry, but find themselves detained at the airport's passport control. Fearing deportation, Tanya requests political...

6.7

204 votes

6.7

204 votes

My Summer of Love

2004 · Movie · 86 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Pawel Pawlikowski

Cast Natalie Press · Emily Blunt · Paddy Considine · Dean Andrews

Plot In the dry heat of a Yorkshire summer, two 16-year-old girls meet and become friends, despite the obvious differences in their backgrounds (Mona is local, working-class, clever and restless; Tamsin...

6.2

1K votes

6.2

1K votes

The Woman in the Fifth

2011 · Movie · 83 min. · France

Direction Pawel Pawlikowski

Cast Ethan Hawke · Kristin Scott Thomas · Samir Guesmi · Joanna Kulig

Plot A college lecturer flees to Paris after a scandal costs him his job. In the City of Lights, he meets a widow who might be involved in a series of...

5.1

496 votes

5.1

496 votes

From Moscow to Pietushki (TV)

1991 · Documentary · 45 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Pawel Pawlikowski

Plot This is a film about the poet Jeorfiejev. With his participation the director tries to reconstruct the realities of the poem 'Moscow, Pietushki.' On consecutive stops on the railway, passengers...

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Tripping with Zhirinovsky (TV)

1995 · Documentary · 45 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Pawel Pawlikowski

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The Stringer

1998 · Movie · 88 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Pawel Pawlikowski

Cast Sergei Bodrov Jr. · Anna Friel · Robert Knepper · Vladimir Ilyin

Plot Vadik Chernyshov is an impoverished dreamer who spends his life drifting though Moscow with a video camera, hoping to shoot footage that will interest Western press agencies. He falls in...

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The Island

2026 · Movie · min. · Italy

Direction Pawel Pawlikowski

Cast Joaquin Phoenix · Rooney Mara

Plot The film follows a couple who build a secluded paradise on a deserted island to get away from civilisation but a European countess & her 2 lovers arrive to take...

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Dostoevsky's Travels (TV)

1991 · Documentary · 45 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Pawel Pawlikowski

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